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2 Groats 'Botdrager' - Louis II
| Issuer | Flanders, County of |
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| Year | 1365-1383 |
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| Value | 2 Groschen (Groot) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse lettering | lég. int. : + MONETA DE FLANDRIA lég. ext. : + BENEDICTVS: QVI: VENIT: IN: NOmINE: DOmINE. (Translation: Coin of Flanders Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord) |
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Louis II of Flanders inherited the county in 1346 at age eleven after his father Louis I was killed at Crécy fighting alongside the French crown — an irony, given that Louis II would spend much of his reign navigating the competing economic pulls of France and England. Flemish cloth towns depended on English wool; political loyalty to Paris was financially ruinous. The botdrager coinage emerged from this chronic tension, when Louis needed a stable silver currency acceptable to merchants who cared far more about fineness than feudal allegiances.
The "botdrager" name derives from the Flemish for barrel-carrier, a reference that remains debated among specialists.